Bare ActsThe MP Excise Act

Section 17

Licence required for sale of intoxicant

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Licence required for sale of intoxicant.— (1) No intoxicant shall be sold except under the authority and subject to the terms and conditions of licence granted in that behalf: Provided that— (a) a person having the right to the tan drawn from any tree may sell such tan without a licence to a person licensed to manufacture or sell tan under this Act. (b) a person under Section 13 to cultivate the hemp plant may sell without a licence those portions of the plant from which the intoxicating drug is manufactured or produced to any person licensed under this Act to deal in the same, or to any officer whom the Excise Commissioner may prescribe; and (c) nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of any fore ign liquor lawfully procured by any person for his private use and sold by him or on his behalf or on behalf of his representatives interest upon his quitting a station or after his decease. (2) On such conditions as the Excise Commissioner may determine, a licence for sale under the Excise Law for the time being in force in other States or Union territories may be deemed to be licence granted in that behalf under this Act.

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